Sentences with phrase «powerful lobby group»

Realtors are the second most powerful lobby group in the United States and have been successful passing laws that make this form of representation legal ONLY for them.

The president of another powerful lobby group, the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, believes the oil - price slide may have helped his cause.

In fact, school choice groups are poised to become the single most powerful lobby group in the state, edging out bankers and realtors; who would thought such a thing was possible just a few short years ago?

An implausible story, but then setting up a powerful lobby group and stirring up a moral outrage against confectionery probably wouldn't have made much of a game.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

A powerful lobby group in its own right it also ensures a voice in Europe though membership of the Federation of European Motorcyclists» Associations (FEMA).

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

That powerful lobby group also claims that earlier Buy American rules tied to President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, delayed «shovel - ready» projects as municipalities conferred with lawyers and manufacturers refrained from bidding on projects because they found it difficult to avoid sourcing their materials from abroad.

But then again, as the president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association — a powerful lobby group that represents more than 2,000 technology companies operating in the United States, including Samsung, Microsoft and Apple — he's supposed to be.

Meanwhile, one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups and CFPB critics, the Chamber of Commerce, said it will «consider every approach to address our concerns,» which many interpreted as a threat to sue.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

The Business Roundtable, a powerful lobbying group chaired by JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon, said Trump's tariff plan will «hurt the U.S. economy and American companies, workers and consumers.»

Democracy is not proving to be as steady and permanent as expected: powerful lobby groups and financial interests can too easily destabilize it.

What is significant now is that the battle is being prosecuted not by those who supply and those who buy, but by the government and by powerful lobby groups, and being decided in the law courts.

US wheat growers in the states that helped elect Mr Trump are up in arms after analysis by their powerful lobby groups showed Japanese tariffs on wheat imports from Australia will drop by $ US65 a tonne.

At the same time, powerful lobby groups have been working to curtail government legislation regulating formula marketing and promotion, in the Philippines and across the world.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

(The plan has the backing of the Real Estate Board of New York, the developers» powerful lobbying group.)

Cuomo engineered the creation of the uber - powerful lobbying group to protect him from labor attacks during the budget process.

But as he was digging into the study, his source of funding came under attack from the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful lobbying group based in Fairfax, Va., that supports gun ownership.

It's the food industry that has the powerful lobby groups protecting and pushing protein - It's like protein has it's own billion dollar PR agency!

Two other powerful lobbying groups — the Chicago Veterinary Association and The American Veterinary Medical Association have also put on the pressure.

General Mills is also represented by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a powerful lobbying group and major financial backer of the campaigns that defeated proposed GMO labeling laws in California and Washington.

AARP operates as a non-profit advocate for its members and as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States.

He's met with representatives from powerful lobbying groups like the the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry as well as representatives from the office of Gov. Bobby Jindal.

As one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the U.S., the group works to ensure dignity and respect for senior citizens across the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are many ways to measure and proclaim political prowess in the nation's capital, and the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®» recent appearance in Fortune magazine's first - ever listing of the 25 most powerful lobbying groups is one to take notice of.

There are many ways to measure and proclaim political prowess in the nation's capital, and the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®» recent appearance in Fortune magazine's first - ever listing of the 25 most powerful lobbying groups is one to take notice of.

Not exact matches

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

He also is one of the founders of FWD.us, a lobbying group of powerful silicon valley entrepreneurs focused on many political matters, such as immigration and education reform.

Lobbying expenditures by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the most powerful business group in Washington, D.C.,...

Lobbying expenditures by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the most powerful business group in Washington, jumped to...

In fact, all of the Canadians on the NACC are members of the powerful CCCE lobby group, and the CCCE serves as the Canadian secretariat.

«But after it is over, they will come over to talk to me and whisper in my ear, «I agree with everything you said,»» says Sprigg, a spokesman for The Family Research Council, a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

It's never been entirely clear, though it may be related to the MirRam Group, the powerful consulting and lobbying firm that has long counted Espaillat and Klein as clients.

The Cuomo administration aggressively interfered when the Commission started asking questions of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful trade group that has donated generously to Governor Cuomo, and forbade members from investigating the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group created to support Cuomo,» Teachout said in a statement.

The National Rifle Association, a powerful pro-gun lobbying group, has spent over $ 5,000 in the state this year trying to defeat Malloy.

ALBANY, NY (06/18/2012)(readMedia)-- A report released today shows that the powerful forces behind a big business lobbying group reap billions from policies that have been continued, implemented, or proposed during the Cuomo administration.

Obama accused the powerful pro-gun rights lobby group of peddling an «imaginary fiction» that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.

Norquist was the subject of a «60 Minutes» profile, which portrayed him and his Americans for Tax Reform group as a powerful anti-tax lobby that has an unusual hold over the Republican Party.

And REBNY is not the only powerful real estate lobbying group stockpiling cash for the upcoming election.

A group devoted to continuing his education agenda and founded in part by his longtime schools chancellor has become one of the most powerful forces in Albany by pouring millions into lobbying and adroitly exploiting rivalries in state politics.

For almost 30 years, Polak has nurtured the Conservative Friends of Israel and developed the organisation, of which he is honorary president, into one of the most powerful and influential lobbying groups in the history of the Tory Party.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

Over the past few months, across the Atlantic, teenagers have taken on one of the most powerful and sinister lobbying groups in the world and have scored victories that should inspire us all.

«It's unproven at best,» Mark Jewell, president - elect of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), one of the most powerful teacher lobbying groups in Raleigh, told House lawmakers last week.